The Poet as Orphic Singer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poet as Orphic Singer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
This chapter takes a look at Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is considered as a poet-intellectual. It reveals that Emerson is believed to be the father of American's cultural independence, as well as the ambiguity of his relationship to Whitman's authority. The last section in the chapter explains how Emerson's concept of historical presence affected his vocabularies of legitimation.
Keywords: Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet-intellectual, cultural independence, historical presence, vocabularies of legitimation
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